That statue of Jefferson Davis is the most honest Civil War monument I have ever seen. I don't know when it was erected, but it still took a lot of balls to put "Slave Owner" on the side of the monument.
And putting it in bright red was a bold move. Well don, sir. Well done.
Actually, a Harper's Weekly cartoonist in 1862 designed an even better monument to Jefferson Davis than the one that New Orleans has. https://pbs.twimg.com/media...
It *is* New Orleans. How about "Shirley & Lee Circle"-- "Feels So Good". Or Lee Dorsey Circle? Or just take the statue off the top of the pillar, and call it the "Stack o' Lee".
I've waded into the cesspools of online comments to the Picayune of those who want to "save" the Confederate monuments intact. Two common messages are "The monuments have nothing to do with racism!" and "If you take them down, you have to take down the statue of Martin Luther King too!". I doubt any of them notice the contradiction in those messages. I referred to the monuments as "Idols to Traitors". I had multiple replies arguing that the Confederate leaders weren't traitors (though making war against the USA is clearly defined as treason in the US Constitution). No one took issue with my describing the monuments as "Idols".
Psst, Piyush - that's your portrait you're lookin' at -- not a mirror! You're still too brown for most of your constituents. And about that exorcism.........
And if the horse is lifting up his real leg, it means "Piss on all of you"(i know horses don't lift their legs to pee, but it would be silly if the statue was of a soldier riding a dog, and then the whole joke just goes to hell)
Actually according to Nazi racial theory Aryan's originated in N. Germany and then emigrated to India. As well as to Greece and Italy and Iran, degenerating via race mixing and becoming browner all the way.In fact even in Indian myth you get the belief that the Arya came from the north as as conquerors over the Dravidians.Reality of course not matching up neatly with either theory. But Germans NEVER traced their own ancestry to the Sub-Continent. Not a lot of blond haired blued eyed 'true Aryans' to be found in the Punjab. In fact the language now called 'Indo-European' was by the Germans called 'Indo-Germanic' in accordance with the belief it ultimately originated in Germany/S Scandinavia.
Mr Ellis would really be a contender. Don't know his children, but know the man as a wonderful musician and a private yet very polite person. He used to give a Christmas concert at my church every year. Our church, he and his wife being parishioners.
British colonial types did not agree!
I think the deal was that they believed upper-caste Indians were "whiter" and therefore the kind of people they could do business with.
He's an Aryan, after all. The Punjab is pretty close to the original Indo-European homeland.
That statue of Jefferson Davis is the most honest Civil War monument I have ever seen. I don't know when it was erected, but it still took a lot of balls to put "Slave Owner" on the side of the monument.
And putting it in bright red was a bold move. Well don, sir. Well done.
This is good Filk
Well, you know how those born again whites are.
Actually, a Harper's Weekly cartoonist in 1862 designed an even better monument to Jefferson Davis than the one that New Orleans has. https://pbs.twimg.com/media...
It *is* New Orleans. How about "Shirley & Lee Circle"-- "Feels So Good". Or Lee Dorsey Circle? Or just take the statue off the top of the pillar, and call it the "Stack o' Lee".
I've waded into the cesspools of online comments to the Picayune of those who want to "save" the Confederate monuments intact. Two common messages are "The monuments have nothing to do with racism!" and "If you take them down, you have to take down the statue of Martin Luther King too!". I doubt any of them notice the contradiction in those messages. I referred to the monuments as "Idols to Traitors". I had multiple replies arguing that the Confederate leaders weren't traitors (though making war against the USA is clearly defined as treason in the US Constitution). No one took issue with my describing the monuments as "Idols".
That's great! hahahaha
Bobby "George Wallace" Jindal.
Psst, Piyush - that's your portrait you're lookin' at -- not a mirror! You're still too brown for most of your constituents. And about that exorcism.........
I read that too fast at first i thought you said Bobby "blech" Jindal.
And if the horse is lifting up his real leg, it means "Piss on all of you"(i know horses don't lift their legs to pee, but it would be silly if the statue was of a soldier riding a dog, and then the whole joke just goes to hell)
Actually according to Nazi racial theory Aryan's originated in N. Germany and then emigrated to India. As well as to Greece and Italy and Iran, degenerating via race mixing and becoming browner all the way.In fact even in Indian myth you get the belief that the Arya came from the north as as conquerors over the Dravidians.Reality of course not matching up neatly with either theory. But Germans NEVER traced their own ancestry to the Sub-Continent. Not a lot of blond haired blued eyed 'true Aryans' to be found in the Punjab. In fact the language now called 'Indo-European' was by the Germans called 'Indo-Germanic' in accordance with the belief it ultimately originated in Germany/S Scandinavia.
Mr Ellis would really be a contender. Don't know his children, but know the man as a wonderful musician and a private yet very polite person. He used to give a Christmas concert at my church every year. Our church, he and his wife being parishioners.